Kennebunk police said they were called to the Port Inn Wednesday evening after the tourists, whose names were not available, found a ball python in the trunk of their rental car when they went to retrieve their luggage.

Police said the car had been rented at Logan Airport in Boston.

Police said the snake spent the night at the police station before the Maine Warden Service took the reptile to the Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick.

According to McDaniel University in Westminster, Maryland, the ball python gets its name because it curls up into a ball when it feels threatened. The snake normally grows to be 3 to 6 feet long and will live 20 to 30 years in captivity.